The APA Eastern meeting program is out. It’s the 100th meeting, which is exciting if you get excited by round numbers. The program didn’t look that enthralling, at least compared to a typical APA Pacific, but here are the things that looked most interestingBrian. Note that I’ve left off papers that I’ve seen before, or that I know I won’t be able to attend for various reasons. If all the papers were online I’d probably read more of them than are listed here.
Now that I mention it, why aren’t all the papers online? I can understand that people might want to publish papers later, but it couldn’t/shouldn’t hurt to have them up until the conference – that would hardly count as wider distribution than presenting the paper to an audience at a (relatively) public event. Here’s a real chance to strike a blow for open source principles!
Anyway, the list:
Sunday
I-C. Symposium: The Existence of Propositions
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Mark Sainsbury (University of Texas-Austin)
Speakers: Stephen Schiffer (New York University)
Stephen Neale (Rutgers University)
Commentator: Jason Stanley (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
Reception
8:00 p.m.-Midnight, International Ballroom (Concourse)
Monday
II-A. Invited Paper: Epistemology
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Jonathan Vogel (Amherst College)
Speaker: James Pryor (Princeton University)
Commentator: Susanna Siegel (Harvard University)
II-G. Colloquium: Metaphysics and Vagueness
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Jay F. Rosenberg (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Speaker: Donald P. Smith (University of Notre Dame)
“Mereological Universalism and the Argument from Vagueness”
**Winner of a Graduate Student Travel Stipend**
Commentator: Ted Sider (Rutgers University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Ken Akiba (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire)
“Who’s Afraid of Sharp Borderlines?”
Commentator: Roy Sorensen (Dartmouth College)
III-F. Colloquium: Philosophy of Language
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Speaker: Marc A. Moffett (University of Colorado-Boulder)
“A Semantic Analysis of the Gettier Problem”
Commentator: Kent Bach (San Francisco State University)
Tuesday
IV-B. Invited Paper: Contemporary Idealism
9:00-11:00 a.m-
Chair: Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers University)
Speaker: Robert M. Adams (Yale University)
Commentator: Peter van Inwagen (University of Notre Dame)
IV-D. Colloquium: Lewis on Counterfactuals
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Troy Cross (Yale University)
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Speaker: Charles M. Hermes (Florida State University)
“Giving Lewis a Second Chance in an Indeterministic World”
Commentator: Adam Elga (Princeton University)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Ryan J. Wasserman (Rutgers University)
“The Future Similarity Objection Revisited”
**Winner of a Graduate Student Travel Stipend**
Commentator: Jonathan Schaffer (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
V-E. Colloquium: Color
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Chair: Catherine Wearing (Carleton University)
11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Speaker: Jonathan D. Cohen (University of California-San Diego)
“Color Constancy as Counterfactual”
Commentator: David Hilbert (University of Illinois-Chicago)
12:15-1:15 p.m.
Speaker: Derek Brown (University of Western Ontario)
“Perceptual Relativity and Color Theory”
**Winner of a Graduate Student Travel Stipend**
Commentator: Alex Byrne (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
VI-D. APA Book Prize Session: Ted Sider, Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Chair: James Van Cleve (Brown University)
Speakers: Sally Haslanger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Mark Heller (Southern Methodist University)
Mark Hinchliff (Reed College)
Commentator: Ted Sider (Rutgers University)
I imagine I’ll spend most of the conference locked in smoky hotel rooms, or at least hotel rooms that would be smoky were it not for no smoking policies, so I’ll probably be at approximately one of those events. I imagine I will be at the infamous first night smoker, so if you want a sales pitch on why you should hire a Brown graduate, you’ll know who to look for.
If anyone has their APA papers up on their websites (not just the papers listed here, but anything on the program) feel more than free to use the comments to post links to them.